Mises Wire

Can fighting a war ever be just? Murray Rothbard dealt with that question and, of course, had some definitive answers.

The future of Flock cameras: left the house during a pandemic lockdown? Expect a summons in the mail. Exceeding your "carbon footprint" by driving too much? Expect a ticket in the mail.

The Trump administration’s crackdown on students protesting against Israel has once again run into the law, this time in the form of a federal court ruling against the government.

Federal Reserve policy has been to expand credit out of nothing without regard for the real damage it does to the economy.

The Federal Reserve’s fixation with “stable prices” has led to an unstable economy for the past century. 

Ask a socialist critic of capitalism how to define capitalism and you will probably receive an incoherent answer. Defining these ways of social organization is vital and understanding them is even more important.

Not even your Roomba vacuum cleaner is safe from state control. Time for the state to give up all economic controls across the board.

The movement toward liberty has roots in two eras, neither of which saw much liberty. One lineage comes from the Enlightenment while the other emanates from ancient philosophers.

Murray Rothbard entered Columbia University at age 16 and by the time he was graduated from that institution with a Ph.D. in economics, he already had done path-breaking work in economics. His legacy has only grown since then.

Vail recognized that market competition and “regulation and control are inconsistent with each other, and cannot be had at the same time.” Obviously, Vail favored the latter.